by Randy | Aug 24, 2015 | Birdwatching, Botany, Stoney Creek
The plants are your friends. As you walk by them in the forest greet them by name. This will help you remember them. Rub the leaves of an elderberry and you smell peanut butter, a herb Robert geranium – nuts and a swamp or stink current’s – currents. Who...
by Randy | Jul 18, 2015 | Birdwatching, Stoney Creek
Slosh, slosh, squish, squish Oh what fun our birding is! Boots, umbrella, plastic bags Rushing creek and foggy eyes Dripping hair and soggy pages We’re recording for the ages 8 degrees – the weathers fine Puddle jumping – so divine Whirlpool in the ditch at side Muddy...
by Randy | Jun 10, 2015 | Birdwatching, Stoney Creek
The Stoney Creek Environment Committee began keeping official bird records in August of 1996. That important work continues to this day with data recorded on bird species, sex, age, nesting sites and behaviour. In 2014 our weekend birding group identified 36 bird...
by Randy | May 23, 2015 | Birdwatching, Stoney Creek
It’s challenging, it’s exciting and it’s one of the fastest growing hobby in North America – its’ … it’s … bird watching! Our assignment, on this sunny 22nd day of November, is to distinguish between a male and female bushtit...
by Randy | Jan 29, 2015 | Birdwatching, Stoney Creek
Saturday, September 6, 2014 – part 1 All around us dry crispy leaves are falling from the trees. We can actually hear them hitting one another as they lazily float down to the gravel pathway like snowflakes. It smells like fall – even though it is officially 17 days...
by Randy | Dec 28, 2014 | Birdwatching, Stoney Creek
Look what I found a few days ago. It’s sort of coming apart. Does anyone know what kind of nest it might be? Spider webs and green and white lichen on the outside … moss and cottonwood seed on the inside … hummingbird nest? – or is it too big?...
